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Specimen recordcat. no. 16,413habitat unknownfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

Vanilla Server

Offline 5.15.49.38:28015 checked 26d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 1
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#16,413
top 69%
Last wipe
26d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does Vanilla Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Vanilla Server places at #16,413, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is Vanilla Server?

We have no live count for Vanilla Server right now. It was last seen 26 days 5 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Vanilla Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Vanilla Server is this set of tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp1 (Max players): 1 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Vanilla Server?

Vanilla Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Vanilla Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Vanilla Server's wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 26 days 5 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Vanilla Server run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Vanilla Server.

What are the rules and settings on Vanilla Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Vanilla Server. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Vanilla Server run?

On Windows, Vanilla Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Vanilla Server online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Vanilla Server was last seen 26 days 5 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 1 October 2026.

Where is Vanilla Server located?

A region is not published by Vanilla Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 5.15.49.38:28015.

How to join

How do I join Vanilla Server?

Either enter client.connect 5.15.49.38:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp1
Max players 1 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.